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312: Power of Registrar to delegate
or “The Registrar can let someone else do their job, but only if they write it down and follow the rules.”
You could also call this:

“The Registrar's signed paper is trusted as true proof about building workers, unless someone can show it's wrong.”

The Registrar, or someone they allow, can give you a special paper called a certificate. This certificate can prove some important things about licensed building practitioners. When the Registrar signs this paper, everyone must believe what it says unless someone can prove it’s wrong.

The certificate can tell you if someone was or wasn’t a licensed building practitioner at a certain time. It can also show what’s written in the register about building practitioners. The certificate can even say what kind of building work and inspections a person is allowed to do or watch over.

For the certificate to work, it needs to have the date written on it. This helps people know when the information was true.

If you want to check any of these things about a building practitioner, you can trust what the Registrar’s certificate says. It’s like a special proof that everyone agrees to use.

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Next up: 314: Offences relating to licensing

or “You can get in trouble if you pretend to have a special licence for building work when you don't really have one.”
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Part 4 Regulation of building practitioners
Licensing and disciplining of building practitioners: Registrar of Licensed Building Practitioners

313Certificate of Registrar to be conclusive evidence

  1. A certificate signed by the Registrar, or any person authorised by the Registrar, in relation to the matters referred to in subsection (2) is for all purposes conclusive evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, of those matters specified in the certificate.

  2. The matters are—

  3. that any person was or was not a licensed building practitioner at any particular time or during any period specified in the certificate; or
    1. that any entry in the register is as stated in the certificate; or
      1. that the description of building work and building inspection work that a person is licensed to carry out or supervise is as stated in the certificate.

        1. The certificate must be dated.

        Notes
        • Section 313(2)(c): amended, on , by section 77 of the Building Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 4).